East German Flute Concertos Claudia Stein, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt & David Robert Coleman

• Günter Kochan (1930 - 2009): Flute Concertino:
• 1 Kochan: Flute Concertino: I. Lento, poco rubato 07:48
• 2 Kochan: Flute Concertino: II. Andantino 06:26
• 3 Kochan: Flute Concertino: III. Vivace 05:30
• Gisbert Nather (1948 - 2021): Flute Concerto, Op. 125:
• 4 Nather: Flute Concerto, Op. 125: I. Adagio - Vivace - 11:10
• 5 Nather: Flute Concerto, Op. 125: II. Andante - 04:59
• 6 Nather: Flute Concerto, Op. 125: III. Adagio - 00:51
• 7 Nather: Flute Concerto, Op. 125: IV. Cadenza - Vivace 07:56
• Siegfried Matthus (1934 - 2021): Flute Concerto:
• 8 Matthus: Flute Concerto: I. Allegro moderato - 05:52
• 9 Matthus: Flute Concerto: II. Pastorale I - 05:34
• 10 Matthus: Flute Concerto: III. Vivace 06:12
• 11 Matthus: Flute Concerto: IV. Pastorale II - 05:46
• 12 Matthus: Flute Concerto: V. Allegro 06:11
• Total Runtime 01:14:15

Info for East German Flute Concertos

The three concertante works for flute and orchestra on this album were written by composers who lived and worked in East Germany during the four decades of the GDR's existence. Günter Kochan, who is best known for his symphonic compositions, wrote a highly acclaimed Concertino in 1964 that combines conciseness with neoclassical influences. Gisbert Näther's concerto from 2007 is inspired by the soloist Claudia Stein and is characterised by teasing, fleeting gestures that are stylistically and technically diverse, yet coherent. Composed in 1978, Siegfried Matthus' concerto is an impressive example of his mature style, utilising serial elements and tonal innovations in the course of what proves to be an eventful and ever-changing relationship between soloist and orchestra. Claudia Stein was appointed principal flute of the Staatskapelle Berlin at the age of 23. She has already recorded the flute sonatas by Friedrich II and Mieczysław Weinberg's works for flute for Naxos.

Claudia Stein, flute
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
David Robert Coleman, conductor

Claudia Stein
studied flute at the Dresden Music Academy with Eckart Haupt and piano with Heidrun Richter. At the age of 23 she was already appointed by Daniel Barenboim principal flute of the Berlin State Orchestra (Berliner Staatskapelle).

She has appeared with numerous international orchestras and has plays regularly in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Claudia Stein is a teacher and mentor in the academy of the Berlin State Orchestra and as of 2015 she teaches in the Barenboim Said Academy Berlin. Her pupils have gone on to win positions in prestigious orchestras in Marseille, Düsseldorf, Kassel and Berlin. Claudia is also active in the music kindergarten Berlin, a unique project initiated by Barenboim. She worked on some of the pedagogical ideas leading to its foundation.

A central element to Claudia's extensive solo repertoire is new music. Composers such as John Roysek, Sebastian Undisz, David Robert Coleman, Michael Kleemann and Gisbert Näther have written works especially for her.

Claudia Stein appears regularly as a soloist and chamber-music partner in major European festivals as well as in Israel, Japan and America.

David Robert Coleman
was born in London in 1969. He studied the piano, musicology and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London and King’s College Cambridge. He has worked as an assistant conductor to numerous conductors, including Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle and Hans Zender. He was engaged by Maestro Kent Nagano as personal assistant and associate conductor at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 2006-9.

His conducting career has continued from strength to strength over the last ten years, with appearances as a guest conductor with orchestras including the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, Lausanne Sinfonietta, Southwest German Radio Orchestra, Youth Orchestra of the Americas and Ensemble Modern Frankfurt.

Coleman’s compositions have been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Frankfurt Opera, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Jena Philharmonic and Halle Philharmonic.

Booklet for East German Flute Concertos